Understanding Data Center Standards Smartpro VN

Join us and meet an international data centre expert, consultant, trainer and auditor who will share with you valuable information on the data centre industry.

You will get all the information you need to understand the global data centre standards for facilities and operations, and how to use/apply this knowledge in your job to improve your effectiveness whether you are working in a colocation data centre, enterprise data centre or in a company that uses outsourced data centre services.

You will no longer be confused by the various global data centre standards and guidelines.

You will understand their pros and cons.

You will have a clear idea of how and when to apply the various standards in your environment.

You will be able to make informed decision based on facts and not guess-work, hearsay or what your vendors/suppliers tell you.

You will be able to justify your decisions to your management and protect your company's interest and yours too!

We will end the seminar with a presentation on training and certification for data centre career development.

John has more than 20 years of data centre experience in high-technology industries such as finance, telecom and IT, covering domains on technical operations, facility service management and leadership roles in data centre implementation projects.
John was a major influencer in Gen-i's outsourced datacentre services growth and direction from two clients in Telecom Trader Support offices in Auckland and Wellington in 1988, to being NZ's market leader with over 15 nation-wide datacentre and collocation sites with the capability to compete with the world's leading datacentre providers, with IDC reports regularly reporting Gen-i being a mindshare leader in the New Zealand datacentre hosting industry.
John has received numerous awards for his outstanding performance such as the Telecom Advanced Solutions, ‘Being Your Best Award’ for the category ‘Working Together’, the ACENZ Award for Gen-i New Zealand Super Computer Centre – Build and Implementation, and ‘The Creative Award’ at Bloomberg Asia Pacific Field Service Day in Singapore.